Green Apple
Apple offers up $1 billion green bond to fund clean energy and environmental projects
Showing support for the Paris climate agreement
Funding Paradise
"The timing is perfect": TreasureHunt on its $6 million investment and future plans
CEO Kyle Smith gearing up for Pet Paradise launch
Children Are The Future
British eSports Association partners with Wesminster City Council to create first after-school eSports training club
Teaching kids important life skills through the power of competitive video games
Best In Class
Google Play adds quarterly Android Excellence section to highlight its best apps and games
Galaxy of Heroes and Hitman GO among the first to be featured
Level Up
Level-5 acquires Keiji Inafune's studio Comcept
Currently developing mobile title Dragon Colonies
Critical Mass
Mobile eSports shooter Critical Ops clears 20 million downloads with no paid UA
Still considered a soft launch title
Startapp Sdk
Mobile Monetisation: Choosing the right SDK
Why securing the right SDK is a key decision for publishers
Switch It Up
Nintendo teases new Pokemon RPG, Metroid Prime 4, Yoshi and Kirby for Switch
Game Freak developing core Pokemon RPG for console
From The Ashes
Kabam spin-off Phoenix One decloaks to reveal hardcore real-time strategy game Guardian Kingdoms
Developed as Kabam was considering selling its business
Struck Gold
TreasureHunt closes $6 million series A funding round ahead of Pet Paradise launch
Total funding now sits at $8.4 million
Marketing On The Go
AppsFlyer launches mobile marketing app for advertisers on the go
Check your KPIs while you're on the train or out for a coffee
Tapjoy Ad Preferences
79% of mobile gamers prefer opt-in rewarded video ads to mandatory ads
Tapjoy asks gamers what ads they like to see
Competitive Spirit
Com2uS on the potential of Summoners War as an eSport
Com2uS USA CEO Casey Lee sets out his ambitions
Fight The Tide
Playmob partners with We Are The Oceans to raise awareness of climate change through playable ads
Previous ad garnered 3.2 million plays
Changes In Ios 11
A handy guide to what the changes in iOS 11 mean for mobile developers
Not sure what's new? We've got you covered
Link Up
Sony makes the smartphone a PS4 controller with new PlayLink range
Multiplayer-focused games offer potential for unique new games
Pay To Play
"Many gamers are fed up with F2P": Why Lakoo is bringing subscription-based games to mobile
Tencent-backed Hong Kong studio explains its strategy
Franchise Season
Finnish developer Koukoi Games expands Crashing Season IP with new endless runner
Developer wants to turn game into a franchise
Gambling Fears
Lineage 2 Revolution trading system shut down
Publisher in hot water over real money trading system
See If You Can't Unwind
Ubisoft taps South Park IP for mobile game Phone Destroyer
Coming later this year
Starman
Ubisoft gets in on toys-to-life space with new IP Starlink
Comes with a customisable ship
Daaahhh!
Ubisoft teams up with Nintendo for Mario Rabbids crossover on Switch
Shigeru Miyamoto makes surprise appearance during reveal
Final Wave
Two weeks to go to PG Connects San Francisco... time for a final round of speakers
Glu, GREE, BlackStorm, Linekong, Pocket Gems and ESG among 26 new names
Get That Job
Steel Media is expanding its events team for our ever-growing conference series – Come join us!
We're on the hunt for a Conference Content Producer
Directing Brainz
Colombian developer Brainz adds former Miniclip CTO to Board of Directors
Camilo Marrugo will help see the developer right
Risky Businesses
As the mouse leaves the game stage, enters a fox
Will FoxNext perform better than Disney Interactive?
Minecraft Everywhere
Minecraft adds cross-platform play between mobile, PC and consoles
DLC will also transfer between consoles
A Grand Order
Sony's Fate/Grand Order launches in North America on June 25th following nine million downloads in Asia
Can it make it big in the West?
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Balls VS Blocks knocks off Fidget Spinner from the top of the download rankings
Rankings from May 29th to June 4th
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Sybo's Jonas Georgakakis on how to get a job as an Art Director
SYBO's longest-serving employee shares career insights
Cash Vault
Fallout Shelter racks up 100 million downloads
Still bringing in the money two years on
Deconstructing Fun
Deconstructing NBA Live Mobile: Why EA can't replicate Madden Mobile's success
Vinayak Sathyamoorthy breaks down the reasons why basketball may not precisely fit the EA Sports Mobile template
The Weekly
The Weekly: EA's crazy vision of the future, the 10-year-old app developer and Game Freak's Gear Project
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
Most Read
The App Store is getting an overhaul, Clash of Clans is back on top, and Pokemon GO is very much alive
The hottest articles of last week
Student Insight
Learning to design games at university: US interviews
Plus: discover how students can attend mobile conference PG Connects for free!
Highest Bid
Appodeal launches new ad exchange platform for mobile developers
AppodealX available as part of Appodeal SDK 2.0
Mobile Masters
Amazon brings Summoners War, Hearthstone and Vainglory together for Mobile Masters Invitiational eSports tournament
Top teams and streamers come together to battle it out for a $65,000 prize pool
Iap Inspector
How does Crazy Taxi Gazillionaire monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Sow The Seeds
Discord reportedly valued at $725 million after quietly raising $50 million funding round
Also hires former Twitch veteran Andy Swanson as Head of Publisher Relations
Pokemon Party
Pokemon GO clears 750 million downloads as Niantic prepares first anniversary celebrations
Time to crack open a cold Pokemon with the boys
Now Playing
Now playing: PlayRaven CEO Lasse Seppanen on Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
What games are keeping the industry busy after hours?
New Dawn
NaturalMotion taps EA Red Crow GM to head up Dawn of Titans development
Jeff Hickman joins as Senior VP of Action Strategy
Bandai Docomo Partnership
Bandai Namco Europe partners with Docomo Digital to push into emerging mobile markets
New HTML5 games being developed for the venture
Mobile Marketing
Why retargeting is the new user acquisition for mobile games
AppLift MD Maor Sadra analyses the benefits
Large Congregation
Kongregate surpasses 100 million downloads across its mobile games portfolio in four years
Currently has 15 million MAUs
Hard Knock Life
What will be the impact of losing the App Store’s top grossing charts?
Another Apple shake up
Studio Closure
Sources: EA closes Chillingo office in UK
Macclesfield studio shut down but publishing label remains active
Winding Down
NaturalMotion winding down commercial tech licensing business for third-party developers
Focusing on live operations and new game development
Just The Essentials
Android creator raises further $300 million funding to disrupt smartphone space
Big cash injection following debut smartphone launch
A Win For Indies
Indie games clean up at Apple Design Awards 2017
Blackbox, Mushroom 11 and Severed among the winners